Since his passing on January 10, two days after the release of his final album "Blackstar," there is an outpouring of affection for David Bowie. A constellation was named after him by Belgian astronomers, and rockers like Bruce Springsteen played Rebel Rebel in tribute. On Sunday, Bowie's final album made its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It is his first No. 1 album, reports Billboard.

A 1998 New York Times interview with Bowie talking about the art he made and collected was reprinted January 14.

﻿"There’s the otherside of me that thinks he did it just because he couldn’t paint."​- David Bowie on Duchamp's aesthetic

Otherwise, my tastes are catholic. That’s what I mean about using art. There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I’ll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

Sometimes I wish that I could put myself in Duchamp’s place to feel what he felt when he put those things on show and said: “I wonder if they’ll go for this. I wonder what’s going to happen tomorrow morning.”

There’s the other side of me that thinks he did it just because he couldn’t paint. Maybe in hostility to an art scene that he wasn’t making it very big in, he felt forced into a situation of producing a new kind of art — which would be a very human reaction, and it wouldn’t demean him at all in my eyes if he’d just said: “I’ll put a toilet on show. Let’s see how far I can push it.”

​I would understand that attitude perfectly, because the most interesting thing for an artist is to pick through the debris of a culture, to look at what’s been forgotten or not really taken seriously. Once something is categorized and accepted, it becomes part of the tyranny of the mainstream, and it loses its potency. It’s always been that way for me: The most imprisoning thing is to feel myself being pigeonholed.

LAS VEGAS NOTE: "These shows were mostly shows of brand new, emerging artists. A lot of the shows weren’t sellable because they were installations, but they needed to be seen." Gina Quaranto in a Blackbird Studio exit interview with ​Las Vegas Weekly.

“Well, every decision, aesthetic decision, has a value behind it,” Frida—wearing a mask and a name tag that read “Frida”—said. “And if all the decisions are being made by the same people, then the art will never look like the whole of our culture. And right now the art world is kind of run by billionaire art collectors who buy art that appeals to their values. We say art should look like the rest of our culture. The history of art, it’s not really a history of art, it’s a history of power.” ArtNews

On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" the Guerrilla Girls talked about the History Of Art vs. The History Of Power. Full Segment.

Circus of Light, Ocubo, Lumiere London 2016. Photo, Will Eckersley. Courtesy of Artichoke